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Brazilian Federal Government Unwilling to Buy Chinese Vaccines, Only Buying Products Developed by British Pharmaceutical Companies and Oxford University 
 
Source: Stand News  #Oct16

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Brazilian Federal Government Unwilling to Buy Chinese Vaccines, Only Buying Products Developed by British Pharmaceutical Companies and Oxford University
 
In an interview with local Brazilian media on 14th October, Sao Paulo State Health Secretary Jean Gorinchteyn confirmed that the Brazilian federal government had not appropriated funds to purchase the Wuhan Virus vaccine (CoronaVac) from China.  Clinical trials of CoronaVac are being conducted in Brazil and the Butantan Institute of Sao Paulo State is in collaboration with research and development.
 
Gorinchteyn had also stated that in an earlier Ministry of Health meeting, the Brazilian federal government had confirmed they would only purchase vaccines jointly developed by British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and Oxford University and were not planning on purchasing CoronaVac.   Besides the guaranteed purchase of 61 million doses of the Oxford vaccines that the Brazilian federal government had already committed to, authorities are unwilling to purchase additional vaccines, but did not explain the reason why funds were not appropriated to buy the Chinese vaccine. 
 
#WuhanVirus #Brazil #vaccines #AstraZeneca #CoronaVac #Oxford #UK  
 
Source: Stand News  #Oct16
Experts Worried About China’s Intelligence Network as The UN Global Data Centre in Zhejiang

Source:Stand News #Oct16

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Experts Worried About China’s Intelligence Network as The UN Global Data Centre in Zhejiang

The US government severely discourage Chinese mobile applications and cloud service providers in recent years, stopping the Chinese government from getting sensitive data. However, the United Nations Secretariat cooperated with China recently, established a global data centre in Deqing County, Zhejiang Province, and the “geospatial centre” that uses satellite surveillance technology to process data from various UN member states. The United Nations officials who signed the Data Centre protocol are also from China. Experts worried that the data centre would become China’s global intelligence network.

A former reporter of The Wall Street Journal and a researcher at the Hudson Institute, Claudia Rosett disclosed the data centre location in Deqing County, Zhejiang Province last week. She criticized the plan was that China uses the name of the United Nations, to strengthen the scope of surveillance.

Source:Stand News #Oct16

https://bit.ly/34a54Kn

The Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-uses-the-u-n-to-expand-its-surveillance-reach-11602111456

#UnitedNations #DataCentre #Zhejiang #China #Survelliance #ClaudiaRosett
UAE Donates COVID-19 Test Kits from BGI to Nevada, U.S. Government Warns Against Using it for Fear of Leakage of Patient Privacy

Source: Apple Daily #Oct16

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UAE Donates COVID-19 Test Kits from BGI to Nevada, U.S. Government Warns Against Using it for Fear of Leakage of Patient Privacy

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) donated 250,000 doses of Chinese-made COVID-19 test kits to the State of Nevada. However, the officials from the U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs and Homeland Security privately warned the State of Nevada not to use this batch of test kits due to concerns over patient privacy, the accuracy of the kits, and the involvement of the Chinese government.

U.S. intelligence agencies have been warning that China and other countries may use test samples to learn about the medical history of the tester, illnesses, or genetic characteristics of the test subjects, but they have not provided evidence. According to an internal email obtained by the Associated Press under the Public Records Act, the office of the Governor of Nevada shows that the U.S. authorities are most concerned about the test kits produced by BGI Group from China, the largest gene-sequencing company in the world.

William Puff, a Homeland Security regional attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Abu Dhabi, sent an email to Nevada officials, “I hope that the leadership of the Nevada COVID-19 Task Force is aware of this. As a result, they can make an informed decision and know some concerns of the U.S. government."

Source: Apple Daily #Oct16

https://hk.appledaily.com/international/20201016/SC4B532XLBAOHIITX4SQTKBVUA/

#UAE #COVID19testkits #US #Nevada #USDeptofHomelandSecurity #USDeptofForeignAffairs #BGIgroup #Chinatestkits #AbuDhabi #COVID19 #WuhanCoronavirus #WilliamPuff
More questions on human rights for Beijing Winter Olympics

A spokeswoman for the World Uyghur Congress Zumretay Arkin was born in Xinjiang, immigrated to Canada and still has family in northwestern China. She described Xinjiang as a human-right issue, not simply a political issue.

She was disappointed with the respond of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). IOC repeated its stance that it’s not a political body and doesn’t take a position on human-rights issues. It simply organizes sports events. And it said, “Awardingntje Olympic Games to a national Olympic Committee does not mean that IOC agrees with the political structure, social circumstances or human rights in its country.”

Source: The Association Press #Oct16

https://apnews.com/article/winter-olympics-juan-antonio-samaranch-beijing-2020-tokyo-olympics-china-d03b46950b26420664677b8d1aa8caa2

#BeijingWinterOlympics #Xinjing #Ugyhur #IOC
China becomes an issue in B.C. election as anti-Beijing activists challenge candidates

Source: National Post #Oct16

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China becomes an issue in B.C. election as anti-Beijing activists challenge candidates

The “No BC for Xi” campaign lists Candidates from all parties and labels them as to whether or not they are “CCP leaning” or “against CCP interference”.

The group including the Canada Tibet Committee, Canada Friends of Hong Kong, Alliance Canada Hong Kong imitated this campaign and said in its website, “join us in demanding BC’s candidates to take a stand against CCP’s human rights violations and foreign infiltration into our institutions.”

A volunteer of the group said, “The Chinese Communist Party is not just a threat to people within China.”

As of Thursday afternoon, 11 candidates are marked as “CCP leaning,” while 44 are marked “against CCP interference”. The remaining candidates (~300) have either declined to respond or the campaign is awaiting a response from them.

Source: National Post #Oct16

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/china-becomes-an-issue-in-b-c-election-as-anti-beijing-activists-challenge-candidates

#Canada #BCelection #CCP #China
James Bond Has No Time for China

The final James Bond outing for Daniel Craig, “No Time to Die,” also marks a notable milestone for Bondian geopolitics: The franchise just completed a five-movie arc with a single lead actor, and amid all the globe-trotting and intrigue you would barely know that China existed. Shanghai and Macau were brief backdrops, and one villain had been tortured, offstage and in the past, by Chinese security forces — but overall a series released across the years of China’s rise gave little hint that America’s leading rival mattered any more than any other exotic Bondian locale.

Source: NYTimes #Oct16

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/16/opinion/james-bond-china.html

#JamesBond #China #Russia #KGB
China Consulate in Manchester Drags Hong Kong Protesters Inside Gate and Assaults Them, Damaging Props and Tearing Out Hair

At the China Consulate in Manchester, UK yesterday (Oct 16), a group of Hongkongers gathered for a peaceful protest as the Chinese Communist Party (#CCP) Congress begins in Beijing.

Less than 2 minutes after a protester began a speech, however, several consulate staff, dressed in riot helmets and body armor, rushed out at the gathered crowd. The staff began destroying protest props and posters, and dragged at least one protester into the consulate grounds from outside the gate. A scuffle quickly developed.

Several consulate staff was seen surrounding and beating one protester that they pulled inside the consulate gates, holding down the victim and apparently tearing out a handful of hair, discarding it in a pile of signs that they had snatched from protesters:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj45YCaF4yE

Police officers quickly intervened, rescuing several protesters that had been dragged into the consulate grounds. They quickly formed a line to prevent consulate staff from any further attempts at abducting protesters.

Bob, a Hongkonger at the protest, had several cuts on his face from the altercation with consulate staff. He told Chaser News that he saw at least 6 men came out "looking to beat up people". Sensing trouble, he stepped up to stop them, "but they dragged me inside and beat me up."

He said he was punched and kicked by the men, with injuries all over his body, and thought that he might die there. Fortunately a police officer went inside the consulate grounds and rescued him. The officers later told him that once the gate was closed, they wouldn't be able to do anything.

The man in the trench coat and face mask who came out to kick down the protesters' banners caught the attention of netizens, who noted his similar appearance to Consul-General Zhen Xiyuan in multiple pictures. He was also seen patting the back of one staff member in an armor vest as they retreated after their assault.
https://twitter.com/McWLuke/status/1581705603100995584?s=20&t=ZcjB2FgQiGzvQGyDxE-7iw

https://twitter.com/McWLuke/status/1581705603100995584?s=20&t=ZcjB2FgQiGzvQGyDxE-7iw
In a tweet sharing the video of the beating, Alicia Kearns, MP for Rutland and Melton, calls for the UK government to urgently investigate their violence on British soil and their violation of free speech. "Chinese Ambassador should be summoned and if any officials has beaten protesters, they must be expelled or prosecuted."
https://twitter.com/aliciakearns/status/1581703837915971585

The activist group Hong Kong Indigenous Defence Force sharply criticized the Chinese Consulate's actions. As consulates are sovereign territory of its represented state, if they were allowed to drag citizens into the consulate grounds, then it meant they could forcibly abduct and detain anyone in Britain who displeased them. The group urges the world to "seriously re-examine the legitimacy of the CCP's overseas consulates".

source #Oct16:
WinAndMac
https://www.winandmac.com/2022/10/hong-kongers-are-beaten-up-by-the-chinese-people-in-uk/

The Chaser News
https://www.facebook.com/the.chaser.news/posts/pfbid02eU6UCXSm5hXRvikq2gFEePA8f5ZnJ1VnELnmEY7GVq8NzyCT4xGYkq5gwGfpAHfjl

Hong Kong Indigenous Defence Force
https://www.facebook.com/100078098827369/posts/pfbid0289p53aDGLEBEAC813VMetGwYwGLaH1tJqwZPcJNiyFDRJWPNrTsTo3vvYKQruczxl/

#Manchester #HongKongProtest #CCPCongress #Suppression